Sa Ham- I am She (2024 series): She is Sound

 

Weaver Bird common in my neighbourhood (From Wikipedia)

(This is the ninth and final post of the 2024 Sa Ham series. To read first post, please click here. To read the second post, please click here. To read third post, please click here. To the read the fourth post, please click here. To read the fifth post, please click here. To read the sixth post, please click here. To read the seventh post, please click here. To read the eighth post, please click here.)

I am writing this post on Tamilian Ashtami. Navami in my family is the day of Saraswati. We surrender our writing articles and books to the Goddess. It is Hers and we return it to Her. And on Dashami, we receive it back from her as her blessing.

Following that tradition, I have taken the help of technology to schedule this post on Navami at the appropriate time. And I have chosen not to write but to share the sounds of our world.

A decade back, I had travelled across India and recorded sounds of her landscape. Some of those sounds I shared in the Navami post of that year’s Sa Ham series. You can listen to it here.

I have learnt to love bird sounds and have many recordings from different spaces, including near the Taj Mahal as well as Itmad-ud-daula tomb. They are the easiest ways for me to return to those spaces. I share a couple of recordings here and here.

I am loving new musicians who straddle technology and classic instruments, along with multiple sensory forms, to produce music that challenges our linear understanding of time. I had the joy of sharing this in our ImmARTsion Café in our Lightweaver group. This is FKJ with Ylang Ylang.

I find myself returning to classical chants. I leave you with the one and only MS and her Suprabhatam.

May the coming seasons fill you with expansiveness of heart and detachment from the immediate swirl. May you be more present, more attentive and filled with magic.

Happy Dussehra/Vijayadashami.